The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,”

“That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It demands to be felt.”

“Okay,” he said after forever. “Maybe okay will be our always.”

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

“Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”

I do not want to see a world without him.”

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.

Without pain, we couldn’t know joy.”